SAUDI GAZETTE: JEDDAH – Truant schoolgirls in meetings with un-related males, large screens set up to show “scandalous films”, stages for music performances with light and lazer [sic] displays: Offenses too grave to be ignored by the authorities and too glaring to be continued on the sly for long.
It did not take much time for the Jeddah authorities to realize that a number of coffee shops were, in fact, places for dating and other offenses.
Officials from the Police, Passports Department, Civil Defense, the Labor Office, the Mayor’s Office and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice raided suspect sites over recent days.
In one instance a 14-year-old girl was found in the company of two males in their twenties after reportedly sneaking out of her house without the knowledge of her family. In another, two sisters were found with six young men.
In a secluded corner of one coffee house a young man was found in the company of a woman with a computer screen before them displaying a pornographic website. The man confessed to officials that he hacked sites with the woman’s help and pirated material. >>> Ibrahim Alawi | Monday, May 31, 2010
